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Show uu UTAH'S GREAT COPPER ! PROPERTY. Utah Copper is taking its place as j the most productive copper mine in I the world. From a mountain of waste genIus has laid solidly the founda'- I Hons for industrial greatness. In July the Bingham property pro duced 20,000,000 pounds of copper. On one day, no less than 45,275 tons ol ore was mined and loaded on cars Including the surface capping, there was handled an average of over 67,' 000 tons of material every day. The company's mills have a rated annual capacity of 20,000 tons per day, 12,000 for the Magma and S.000 for tho Arthur. On one day, these mills treated exactly twice this amount of ore, -10,300 tons, and for the month averaged over 36,000 tons of ore per day. Work was started the last of tho month on tho active construction of the new leaching plant. The acid plant Is about half completed. com-pleted. The production for August exceeded ex-ceeded that for Jul)'. Handling 07,000 tons of material in twenty-four hours calls for 1340 cars of 50 tons each, or 40 trains of 33 cars each. |